The first in a series that looks at the flip side of promising trends — or the silver lining when the skies are grey.

If you have been waiting for an opportune time to take that home loan, or a car or education loan, you’d best not defer your decision much longer.

Dipen Sheth offers a solution to tackling the ballooning fiscal deficit — the government should tap the nearly Rs 50 lakh crore of illegal money stashed abroad by Indians.

Revenue inflows are unlikely to jump soon, unless taxes are upped. So, let’s rule out easing of tax rates, though there might be some sops for individuals, like a hike in deductibles for home loans or tax-exempt bank deposits.

After the decisive election mandate in favour of the Grand Old Party of Indian politics, India seems to have rediscovered its sheen all over again.

With a stable regime at the helm, the momentum is back in the markets. But this might not be the start of a bull phase.

Every bear phase comes to an end and is followed by a new, and usually a longer, bull era.

Since the government will increase its spending to keep the wheels of the economy turning, the fiscal deficit is expected to grow.

With a host of new taxes, including expanding the scope of services tax, and removal of exemptions, it was people like you and I who ended up paying more.

Mutual fund investing is a bit like marriage. A bad year is hardly the reason to quit. If you don’t consider divorce as an option when you begin, chances are your marriage will last.

... for the time being. With a confluence of negatives in the stock markets, fund manager Dipen Sheth decides to sit it out and wait for the storm to clear.

As the inflation rate moves up, key market indices are spiralling downward. Is there a way of making sure that your portfolio is not affected by this rising rate?

The Finance Bill 2007 has proposed tougher measures against tax evasion by overhauling tax settlement procedures.

In six budgets, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has given us more money than what he has taken out through taxes. Here’s what to expect on February 28, and why

Indian outsourcers gun for public sector contracts in Europe as governments scramble to cut costs and rein in debt.

This 3G auction is a bonanza? a good part of it will go to trim the deficit and fiscal consolidation.

The eurozone crisis has sent stocks across the globe into a tailspin on fears of a double-dip recession. But though markets may remain jittery awhile, another global meltdown is unlikely.

In 2009-10, the Indian currency recorded the largest ever one-year appreciation in its history. Despite the recent bouts of depreciation, it is most likely to appreciate further in this fiscal year. Why? By how much? And what about volatility? BT invited two experts to answer these questions.

The 3G auctions have swelled the government coffers by almost Rs 70,000 crore. BT asks a few economists to give their wishlists on how best the government can use this windfall without frittering it away on wasteful expenditure.

London has seen more economic downturns than any other city — after all, it's the capital of the world's first industrialised nation. How is the city coping with the impact of the worst recession in its history? Shalini S. Dagar went there to find out.